On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Cory wrote:
this is my first post to the list so hello everyone! does anyone have any information on compiling/running PD on embedded linux devices, or even on webTV boxes and the like? I was in the thrift store and noticed the large number of these devices laying around for like $5-$10 and thought it would be interesting to use them as synths!
Your best start is the distribution of Pd called PDA, which apparently gets rid of float (replacing it by some kind of fixedpoint, i don't know which).
My personal attempt at something weird was to compile the standard Pd (with floats) on a NetWinder.
A NetWinder is a subdesktop computer whose failed marketing plans included a role similar to webTV... back in 1999 it got sold as a server for ~1000$US. It runs an ARM processor which must be the most common kind of processor besides PC Intel/AMD, save *maybe* IBM/Motorola Power chips (aka G4,G5,etc). The ARM processor is available in various models and is used in almost all (say 90% of) handheld computers nowadays.
The NetWinder doesn't have native floats, but I still compiled the standard Pd because anyway 99.99% of the computational horsepower was to be the GridFlow plugin.
I'd like the standard Pd to include some kind of fixed-point hack as a compile-time replacement for t_float, but the cleanest way to handle this that I know requires C++, and... er... [the following might be the Leitmotiv for 2004-2005] I Don't Think Miller Will Want To Maintain This (tm).
Mathieu Bouchard -=- Montréal QC Canada -=- http://artengine.ca/matju